Photos of the week

Pennsylvania

Abraham Lincoln re-enactor Rick Miller poses for photographs after a ceremony commemorating the 150th anniversary of the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, in Gettysburg, Pa., Nov. 19, 2013.

Scotland

Russia

Russian photographer Denis Sinyakov stands in a defendants' cage during a court session in St. Petersburg, Nov. 18, 2013. A Russian medic and freelance journalist, Sinyakov was among 30 people arrested for a Greenpeace protest against offshore Arctic drilling, and was granted bail in a case that has drawn fierce criticism abroad.

Credit: Maxim Zmeyev/Reuters

Indonesia

A woman looks on as Mount Sinabung spews ash, as pictured from Sibintun village in Karo district, Indonesia's north Sumatra province, Nov. 18, 2013.

Credit: Roni Bintang/Reuters

Philippines

A Typhoon Haiyan survivor kisses her baby as she waits to board an evacuation flight at the airport in Tacloban, Philippines, Nov. 22, 2013.

Credit: Dita Alangkara/AP

Russia

A member of the "Ranetka" private family club takes a medical-cosmetic massage using the Achatina fulica snail, also known as the Giant African land snail, in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Nov. 19, 2013.

Credit: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters

Arlington, Va.

The eternal flame flickers in the early morning light at the grave of John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery, Nov. 22, 2013, on the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's death.

Credit: Jacquelyn Martin/AP

Bangladesh

A Bangladeshi student gets treated at a hospital after receiving rubber-bullet injuries in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Nov. 19, 2013. The boy was injured when police shot rubber bullets and tear gas shells to disperse workers protesting the alleged assault on one of their female colleagues .

Credit: A.M. Ahad/AP

United Arab Emirates

Al Fursan, the aerobatics demonstration team of the UAE Air Force perform during the Dubai Air show, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Nov. 19, 2013.

Credit: Hassan Ammar/AP

Japan

Smoke from an erupting undersea volcano forms a new island off the coast of Nishinoshima, a small uninhabited island, in the southern Ogasawara chain of islands in Japan, Nov. 21, 2013.

Credit: Reuters/Kyodo

West Bank

A masked Palestinian protestor hurls a tear gas canister back at Israeli troops during a weekly demonstration against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah, Nov. 15, 2013.

Credit: Majdi Mohammed/AP

Poland

A visitor walks between electric barbed-wired fences at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial and former concentration camp, in Poland, Nov. 18, 2013.

Peru

France

Elena Ilinykh and Nikita Katsalapov of Russia perform during their ice dance free dance program at the ISU Bompard Trophy event at Bercy in Paris, Nov. 16, 2013.

Credit: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters

Philippines

People trying to leave the devastated town look through the fence of Tacloban airport, which remains a point of exodus for survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, Nov. 17, 2013.

Credit: Damir Sagolj /Reuters

Philippines

A typhoon survivor is reflected on a mirror as he continues to seek refuge in a public school which was also damaged by super Typhoon Haiyan, Nov. 22, 2013.

Credit: Bullit Marquez/AP

Egypt

Father Arsenious, the head of Mar Girgis Monastery, speaks during an interview with The Associate Press, south of the ancient city of Luxor, Egypt, Nov. 13, 2013.

Credit: Manu Brabo/AP

India

Migratory birds fly above a man rowing a boat in the waters of river Yamuna during early morning in old Delhi, Nov. 19, 2013.

Credit: Mansi Thapliyal/Reuters

China

A residential compound is seen during a smoggy day in Wujiaqu, Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region, China, Nov. 19, 2013.

Credit: Reuters

Canada

A pair of harbor seals wearing satellite-linked transmitters on their heads face each after being released into the waters of Howe Sound in Porteau Cove, British Columbia, Nov. 20, 2013.

Credit: Andy Clark/Reuters

Lebanon

A man carrying a wounded woman runs from the site of explosions near the Iranian embassy in Beirut, Nov. 19, 2013.

Credit: Issam Kobeisy/Reuters

China

A general view of the explosion site in Qingdao, China, Nov. 22, 2013 . A blast occurred while workers were repairing a petroleum pipeline, killing at least 22 people.

Credit: ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images

Thailand

Thousands of paper balloons, powered by burning oil, rise into the evening sky in Chiang Mai province, north of Bangkok during the Loy Krathong Festival, Nov 16, 2013.

Credit: Vincent Thian/AP

Syria

Free Syrian Army fighters stand in shooting position with their weapons in the Baajan neighborhood in Deir al-Zor, eastern Syria, Nov. 15, 2013. Written on the wall in Arabic: "We will not kneel for anyone but god."